Harlan T. Beverly writes from Austin, Texas about Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Business for Engineers and Other Logical Thinkers.

Sunday, September 11, 2016

Speaking Opportunities Help Your Personal Brand

What do you want to be known for? The guy or gal that never shows up? The friendliest person who never sparks controversy? Or, maybe the most energized and opinionated person in the room?

Me, I have opinions. The only way anyone will care about them though is if I show up. And the best way to show up is for a speaking opportunity. That's why I try to accept as many as I possibly can.

Do you have a unique brand to yourself? Do some volunteering, and let people know, You'd love to speak. It will help your brand grow!

Recently l, I spoke at Sartup Grind Austin. I got extreme. I know, maybe too far? It's okay, I will hopefully be remembered as a result! Don't just have an opinion, have a FUCKING EXTREME opinion. If nothing else, it will spark discussion.A few "extreme points" I made:

1.) Austin is great because we genuinely want to see each other succeed. We can celebrate successes of our peers and it motivates us more!

2.) California sucks because it is the opposite of Austin. People there engage in success theatre, and then make Each other feel bad to get motivated.

3.) Just do something! Stop making plans and instead, launch something already! Lean Startup trains this, and my message, now part of my new book http://leanstartings.com is that you can learn to launch: my book teaches you how to build a webpage and collect money in about an hour. No More Excuses!

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About Me

In 2005, Harlan founded and was CEO of Bigfoot Networks, Inc., a gaming
hardware company, which was acquired by Qualcomm in 2011. After Bigfoot,
Harlan founded and was CEO of Karmaback, Inc., a very successful Social
Networking SaaS company, which was acquired in 2013. Harlan then worked for Creeris Ventures as a virtual VP of Marketing for
their 9 portfolio companies. Harlan is currently CEO of Key Ingredient, a high-tech Cloud technology company, focused on delivering Food Recipes via the Cloud. Harlan also recently completed his PhD in
Business and regularly lectures at U.T. Austin on Business, and is
passionate about the convergence of hard science with Business.

Before becoming an entrepreneur, Harlan worked at Intel and was
responsible for architecture and development of corporate server
networking products, including the world's first 10-Gigabit Ethernet
adapter. He later joined start-up Britestream Networks and helped
develop a 100% CPU off-load SSL security solution. Harlan has over 12
patents from his engineering career, has been published in dozens of
books and articles.

In his 12 years leading companies and teams, Harlan has successfully
launched 5 hardware and 15 software products including the Killer NIC,
2007 Network Product of the Year (CPU Magazine). Harlan has also raised
over $20MM in venture financing in the challenging intersection of
entertainment and technology.